14 Sept 2011

Mumia's Lawyer at public meeting in London this friday

Mumia, decades on death row, is the prophet pure and simple.

Base your politics on Mumia and you will not go wrong!

Details here


Date: Friday, 16 September 2011 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Trinity Reformed Church, Buck St, London NW1 8NJ, Camden Town Accessible entrance, accessible toilet nearby.
image003.jpgChristina Swarns (NAACP Legal Defence and Educational Fund), Mumia Abu-Jamal’s lead lawyer, will be in London on 16th September for one day. She will speak about the latest developments in his case. Ms Swarns has been part of the Abu-Jamal legal team for some years. Her submissions on the issue of racism in jury selection were a crucial part of the appeal submitted in May 2007.
Ms Swarns visits just as a new book by Mumia (as he is known to millions) is launched in the UK.
jlcoversmall.jpgJailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v the USA speaks for the creative and determined movement of prisoners who use the law against the legal establishment. It is published just as prisoners in the US demonstrate their massive movement against prisons as concentration camps of repression, humiliation and other injustice, with work strikes, hunger strikes and other courageous actions, crossing racial divides.

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